quiz 4 ECC - in class review

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Kaya Idenity

CO2 emissions depend on:

  • population

  • affluence

  • energy intensity

  • energy technology

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Cretaceous Period (geological time scale)

  • everywhere was warmer than today

  • higher sea levels = different types of plants and animals

  • continental drift, right after Pangea, locations were different

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lateral moraine

edges of the glaciers

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carboniferous periods

coal came from this period

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terminal moraine

bulldozer effect

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what did moraines show?

glacial evidence from the ice ages

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Ice temperature to volume comparison

  • higher temp - lower ice volume

  • lower temp - higher ice volume

  • based on CO2

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What caused glaciation?

precision, tilt (Obliquity), eccentricity

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precession

the way which the axis spins or wobbles (who gets light)

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tilt (obliquity)

which lateral gets sun

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eccentricity

the oval shape which the earth orbits around the sun

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PETM

  • mass extinction event

  • carbon and oxygen isotopes

  • caused by lots of carbon and higher temperatures

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Milankovitch

  • Astronomical Theory of the Ice Ages

  • believed that cold summers led to glaciation by allowing snow to survive into the next year.